From: afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com (Afzal Mohammed)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: nommu: dynamic exception base address setting
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:50:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170120162022.GB3865@afzalpc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f47f7a48-12e9-7dd0-324d-b736eead3187@arm.com>
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 01:59:09PM +0000, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> On 18/01/17 20:38, afzal mohammed wrote:
> > +#define ID_PFR1_SE (0x3 << 4) /* Security extension enable bits */
>
> This bitfiled is 4 bits wide.
Since only 2 LSb's out of the 4 were enough to detect whether security
extensions were enabled, it was done so. i am going to use your below
suggestion & this would be taken care by that.
> > + if (security_extensions_enabled()) {
>
> You can use
>
> cpuid_feature_extract(CPUID_EXT_PFR1, 4)
>
> and add a comment explaining what we are looking for and why.
Yes, that is better, was not aware of this, did saw CPUID_EXT_PFR1 as
an unused macro.
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CP15
> > + vectors_base = setup_vectors_base();
> > +#endif
>
> alternatively it can be
>
> unsigned long vector_base = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_CP15) ? setup_vbar() : 0;
Yes that certainly is better.
Regards
afzal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-20 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-18 20:35 [PATCH 0/4] ARM: v7-A !MMU support, CONFIG_VECTORS_BASE removal (almost) afzal mohammed
2017-01-18 20:37 ` [PATCH 1/4] ARM: mmu: decouple VECTORS_BASE from Kconfig afzal mohammed
2017-01-19 13:21 ` Afzal Mohammed
2017-01-19 14:07 ` kbuild test robot
2017-01-19 14:24 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-20 16:06 ` Afzal Mohammed
2017-01-22 3:27 ` Afzal Mohammed
2017-01-18 20:38 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: nommu: dynamic exception base address setting afzal mohammed
2017-01-19 13:59 ` Vladimir Murzin
2017-01-20 16:20 ` Afzal Mohammed [this message]
2017-01-22 3:37 ` Afzal Mohammed
2017-01-18 20:38 ` [PATCH 3/4] ARM: nommu: display vectors base afzal mohammed
2017-01-18 22:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-19 13:16 ` Afzal Mohammed
2017-01-30 12:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-01-18 20:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] ARM: nommu: remove Hivecs configuration is asm afzal mohammed
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